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11-letter words containing u, f, o

  • powder puff — fluffy pad for applying powder
  • powder-puff — limited to participation by women or girls: She plays on the powder-puff touch football team.
  • prefunction — the kind of action or activity proper to a person, thing, or institution; the purpose for which something is designed or exists; role.
  • prime focus — the focal point of the objective lens or primary mirror of a telescope
  • profusively — profuse; lavish; prodigal: profusive generosity.
  • proliferous — proliferating.
  • proud flesh — granulation tissue.
  • purificator — the linen cloth used by the celebrant for wiping the chalice after each communicant has drunk from it.
  • pussyfooter — a person who behaves stealthily or evasively
  • put forward — to move or place (anything) so as to get it into or out of a specific location or position: to put a book on the shelf.
  • pyrosulfate — a salt of pyrosulfuric acid.
  • quatrefoils — Plural form of quatrefoil.
  • quinquefoil — cinquefoil (def 2).
  • read out of — to look at carefully so as to understand the meaning of (something written, printed, etc.): to read a book; to read music.
  • reconfigure — to change the shape or formation of; remodel; restructure.
  • rediffusion — act of diffusing; state of being diffused.
  • reformulate — to formulate again.
  • refuctoring — (humour, programming)   Taking a well-designed piece of code and, through a series of small, reversible changes, making it completely unmaintainable by anyone except yourself. The term is a humourous play on the term refactoring and was coined by Jason Gorman in a pub in 2002. Refuctoring techniques include: Using Pig Latin as a naming convention. Stating The Bleeding Obvious - writing comments that paraphrase the code (e.g., "declare an integer called I with an initial value of zero"). Module Gravity Well - adding all new code to the biggest module. Unique Modeling Language - inventing your own visual notation. Treasure Hunt - Writing code consisting mostly of references to other code and documents that reference other documents. Rainy Day Module - writing spare code just in case somebody needs it later.
  • reproachful — full of or expressing reproach or censure: a reproachful look.
  • resourceful — able to deal skillfully and promptly with new situations, difficulties, etc.
  • rocket fuel — an explosive charge that powers a rocket
  • rough draft — writing: unfinished version
  • rough stuff — violence, as physical assault, torture or shooting.
  • round-faced — having a face that is round.
  • royal flush — the five highest cards of a suit.
  • rubefaction — the act or process of making red, especially with a rubefacient.
  • rufter hood — a temporary, loosely fitted hood used on newly captured hawks.
  • rule of law — the principle that all people and institutions are subject to and accountable to law that is fairly applied and enforced; the principle of government by law.
  • rule out of — If someone rules you out of a contest or activity, they say that you cannot be involved in it. If something rules you out of a contest or activity, it prevents you from being involved in it.
  • run foul of — to collide with or become entangled in
  • run-of-mine — of or relating to ore or coal that is crude, ungraded, etc.
  • sacculiform — (of plant parts, etc) shaped like a small sac
  • scarf cloud — pileus (def 3).
  • schaffhouse — a town in N Switzerland, capital of Schaffhausen canton, on the Rhine. Pop: 33 628 (2000)
  • school fund — the money provided by a government or raised by parents and teachers to finance the running of a school
  • scottsbluff — a city in W Nebraska, on the North Platte River.
  • scuffle hoe — a hoe with a flat blade, pushed back and forth through the surface soil, as to weed
  • septiferous — in possession of a septum or partition
  • shaft house — a structure housing machinery and other equipment at the top of a mine shaft.
  • shuffle off — to walk without lifting the feet or with clumsy steps and a shambling gait.
  • sioux falls — a city in SE South Dakota.
  • snap out of — to make a sudden, sharp, distinct sound; crack, as a whip; crackle.
  • snowsurfing — the use of a board without bindings to travel over snow
  • snuff movie — Slang. a pornographic film that shows an actual murder of one of the performers, as at the end of a sadistic act.
  • snuff-movie — Slang. a pornographic film that shows an actual murder of one of the performers, as at the end of a sadistic act.
  • so much for — So much for is used to indicate that you have finished talking about a subject.
  • social fund — (in Britain) a social security fund from which loans or payments may be made to people in cases of extreme need
  • sodium-free — (of food) containing less than 5 mg of sodium per serving
  • soft ground — an etching ground usually mixed with tallow. Compare hard ground.
  • soft launch — the launch of a website in stages, with regular updating
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